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Enjoining good and forbidding wrong (Arabic: ٱلْأَمْرُ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَٱلنَّهْيُ عَنِ ٱلْمُنْكَرِ, romanized:al-amru bi-l-maʿrūfi wa-n-nahyu ʿani-l-munkari) are two important duties imposed by God in Islam as revealed in the Quran and Hadith. [ 1 ][ 2 ] "The term that best helps us to ...
Karma. from Sanskrit, the result of a person's actions as well as the actions themselves. It is a term about the cycle of cause and effect. Kedgeree. from Hindi खिचड़ी, Kedgeree is thought to have originated with the Indian rice-and-bean or rice-and-lentil dish khichri, traced back to 1340 or earlier.
Hindustani(sometimes called Hindi–Urdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistanand the Hindi Beltof India. It forms a dialect continuumbetween its two formal registers: the highly PersianizedUrdu, and the de-Persianized, SanskritizedHindi.[2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari.
v. t. e. Qisas or Qiṣāṣ (Arabic: قِصَاص, romanized:Qiṣāṣ, lit. 'accountability, following up after, pursuing or prosecuting') is an Islamic term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind", [ 1 ][ 2 ] " eye for an eye ", or retributive justice. Qisas and diyya are two of several forms of punishment in classical/traditional Islamic ...
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Quran. There exist Ahmadiyya translations of the Quran in over 70 languages. [1] Portions of the scripture have been translated into multiple other languages. The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement has produced translations into at least 7 languages. The period of the late 1980s and the early 1990s saw an acceleration in the number of translations being ...
Izzat (Hindi: इज़्ज़त; Urdu: عزت; Bengali: ইজ্জত) is the concept of honour prevalent in the culture of North India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. [ 1 ] It applies universally across religions (Hindu, Muslim and Sikh), communities and genders. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Maintaining the reputation of oneself and one's family is part of ...
Ijtihad (/ ˌ ɪ dʒ t ə ˈ h ɑː d / IJ-tə-HAHD; [1] Arabic: اجتهاد ijtihād [ʔidʒ.tihaːd], lit. ' physical effort ' or ' mental effort ') [2] is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, [3] or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a legal question. [2]